Pilot was headed back from airplane marketing meeting

Wednesday

Authorities said the pilot who died in a crash in Madison County was coming from marketing a plane that his company developed, state police said.

Authorities said the pilot who died in a crash in Madison County was coming from marketing a plane that his company developed, state police said.

Bernard Laferriere, 56, of St. Gerard-Des-Laurentides, Quebec left the airport in Norwich in Chenango County Monday after waiting for winds to subside and then crashed in a wooded area in neighboring Madison County.

A man riding an all-terrain vehicle found the wreckage Tuesday afternoon.

Troopers said Laferriere, head of Explorer Aeronautique in Quebec, was returning home after marketing his company’s new Ecoflyer in Florida.

In a YouTube video, Laferriere describes the $100,000 Ecoflyer as a two-seat ultralight aircraft with an empty weight of 750 pounds.

He said they’d be ready for delivery by late summer 2009.

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